Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“I wonder if my entire life will be a series of moments in which I realize I’m an idiot long after I can actually do anything about it. Will I ever feel like I know what I’m doing?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“But that doesn't mean the past has to repeat itself. We have to believe that we can change the future. Otherwise, what's the point of anything?”
― Sara Holland, Evermore

“There will be so much more in between. So much uncertainty. I don't know if we'll survive the catacombs, let alone the rest of it. But it doesn't matter. For now, these steps are enough. These first few precious steps into darkness. Into the unknown. Into freedom.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Wanting and wishing are very different”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“I should just build a bleeding house here," I mutter as I pick myself up off the snow-covered ground. "Maybe get a few chickens. Plant a garden.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“I've lived so long in this world. But in all that time . . . the only one who has ever looked only at me . . . has been you.”
― Kore Yamazaki, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 8

“What's wrong with me? I lose my footing, in here.' He touched his head. 'When a neuro-typical looses their footing, they yell or escape to the TV, or maybe the doctor throws them on depression meds. But when I slip, I fall all the way through. I feel the ground give way and I'm gone. It's a crack -- a crack in what's real, and beneath there I'm stuck. Then, I guess I become someone else. Mom says I still know my name, but I walk a different world. The shrink calls it DID -- Dissociative Identity Disorder -- with a little added autism to spice up my other personality. I suppose he's right, but only I know how it feels to slip through the cracks. Then the monster shows up.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“Names are important, you know”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum of the parts, right? I see one hunk of metal and then another, and the puzzle opens. They turn in my mind and just make sense. Together they all mean something.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“Eu gostaria de viver mil vidas para me apaixonar por você mil vezes. Mas se tudo que tivermos for esta, e eu a compartilhar com você, então não vou querer mais nada.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Elias was so close that she could not even draw a breath before his lips were on hers. ... She could not deny that she wanted him with all her heart, in wanton ways and practical ways, day and night. Almost losing him was far scarier than the life-threatening situations she had faced on her own.”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“This is perhaps a foolish risk,â€� she said against his ear.
“What will they do if they catch us?� He gave her a look of mock horror. “Make me marry you?�
“That would be the respectful thing to do.�
“I respect you,â€� he said darkly, grazing his teeth and tongue over the lace that framed her bosom. “Shall I take you upstairs and respect you over and over again?”
― Evelyn Pryce, A Man Above Reproach

“We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track.”
― Jonathan Friesen, Both of Me

“It’s unfortunate that I’m just now living. Don’t be like me. Live and soak up every single moment. Lean into them, even the moments that terrify you. That’s how you know you’re alive.”
― A.E. Valdez, Colliding With Fate